Arsène Wenger will not abandon Arsenal’s self-sustaining model and his belief in trying to bring through youth-team players, despite receiving an influx of funds from the £150 million, five-year sponsorship deal signed with Emirates last month.

Theoretically, that financial boost should let Wenger compete in the transfer market with Manchester City, Chelsea and the like for the first time in almost a decade, something many of the club’s increasingly unsettled fans have demanded at volume for years.

In practice, though, the manager has no intention of attempting to replicate the Barclays Premier League’s big spenders, whatever the state of Arsenal’s